POTTER, NATHANIEL (1761-1841). Privateer. Nathaniel was born in Huntington on December 23, 1761 to Dr. Gilbert Potter (1723-1786) and Elizabeth Williams Potter (1728-1811) and was baptized there at the Old First Church by Reverend Ebenezer Prime (see). His ancestors lived in Rhode Island until his grandfather, Nathaniel, moved to Huntington
TITUS, JONATHAN (1724–1808). Captain, Colonel Henry Livingston’s 2nd and 4th New York Regiments. Jonathan Titus was born to John Sr. and Sarah Platt Titus in the village of Cold Spring Harbor in the town of Huntington, Long Island. He was the oldest of four siblings, and of four half-brothers from
WICKES (or WICK, WICKS, WEEKES), JOHN (1723-1801). Captain, Colonel Josiah Smith’s 1st Regiment of Suffolk County Minutemen, Fifth Company. As per his Find A Grave page and the online family tree posted on Ancestry.com, John was born in Huntington, New York in 1723 to Jonathan (1686-1749) and Mary Brush Wicks;
PRIME, EBENEZER (1700-1779). Patriot, clergyman. According to Appleton’s Cyclopedia of American Biography, 1600-1889, Ebenezer was born on July 21, 1700, in Milford Connecticut. The Connecticut, U.S., Church Records Abstracts, 1630-1920, document his parents as James and Sarah Prime and that he was baptized on July 28, 1700 in Milford. As
SMITH, DAVID (1750-1820). Private, Colonel Josiah Smith’s 1st Regiment of Minutemen, 2nd Company, Huntington Militia. David was born in 1750 in Hulse Landing, Suffolk County, to Samuel Blue Cory Smith (1706-1778) and Esther Jarvis Wickes (1714-1791), as per a family tree posted on Ancestry.com; he was baptized in 1750. That
RUSCO, SR., DAVID MATTHEWS (1723–1815). Associator; member, War Committee, Town of Huntington. David Rusco’s grandfather, William, was a child when he arrived with his family in Hartford, Connecticut from London late in the 1630s. David’s father, Amini Ruhama Rusco, died when David was five years old and living with his
SAMMIS, JONAS (1739-1784). Private, Colonel Josiah Smith’s 1st Regiment of Minutemen, Captain John Wickes’s Company, Huntington Militia. Born in Huntington, New York Colony, in 1739, Jonas Sammis was a descendent of John Sammis who settled in that area in the mid-17th century, as detailed in The Refugees of 1776 from
SAMMIS, DAVID SILAS (1761-1820). Private, Colonel Josiah Smith’s 1st Regiment of Minutemen, 2nd Company, Huntington Militia. Frederic Gregory Mather, in The Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to Connecticut (1913), states that John Sammis was the original member of David’s family to settle in Huntington after a grant of land
RUSCO, JR., DAVID MATTHEWS (1754-1805). Private, 1st Regiment of Minutemen, Suffolk County Militia; signer of the 1775 Huntington Articles of Association. The son of David Matthews Rusco (1723-1815) and Jemima Scudder (1728-1799), David Matthews Rusco Jr. was born in Huntington, Suffolk County, New York Colony, on July 5, 1754. While
PLATT, AMOS (1759-1821). Private, Colonel Josiah Smith’s Regiment, 1st Regiment of Minutemen, Suffolk County Militia, Captain Thomas Wickes’s Company. Wendy Polemus-Annibell, head librarian, Suffolk County Historical Society in “A Brief Biography of the Some of the Huntington Patriots” (April 3, 2024), includes a biography of Amos Platt and reports that
ROGERS, JOSHUA (1736-1785). Captain of a privateer raiding British ships on Long Island Sound; captain, Huntington Militia, Colonel Floyd’s 1st Regiment, Suffolk County Militia; associator, Huntington’s Articles of Association. Joshua Rogers was born in 1736 in Huntington, New York Colony; the month of his birth is shown as April in
PRIME, BENJAMIN YOUNGS (1733-1791). Associator, Huntington, New York; member, Sons of Liberty; poet, writer and physician. As per Frederic G. Mather in his scholarly work, Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to Connecticut (1913), ancestors of the Primes probably came from Yorkshire, England to New Haven, Connecticut in 1638 and